...thought or perception. The present philosophy, therefore, has so far a promising aspect. But all my hopes vanish, when I come to explain the principles that...gives me satisfaction on this head. In short, there sre two principles which I cannot render consistent, nor is it in my power to renounce either of them,...

...impressions so conjoined. Hume's account was, however, confessedly inadequate. " All my hopes," he said, "vanish when I come to explain the principles that...successive perceptions in our thought or consciousness" (Treatise on Human Nature, Green & Grose's ed., i. 559). These words exactly define Kant's problem,...

...the Treatise. No wonder then that in an appendix to later editions he confesses : "But all my hopes vanish, when I come to explain the principles that...theory which gives me satisfaction on this head." 2 This principle that Hume cannot find is, of course, Kant's 'originally synthetic unity of apperception.'...

...has to admit that he is incapable of accounting even for our consciousness of time. " All my hopes vanish, when I come to explain the principles, that...theory, which gives me satisfaction on this head." l That admission must not, however, be taken as justifying the Cartesian view of the self. Eather we...

...that unite our various perceptions in our thought or consciousness. I can not discover any principle which gives me satisfaction on this head. In short, there are two principles which I can not render consistent, nor is it in my power to renounce either of them, viz. , that all our distinct...

...thought or perception. The present philosophy, therefore, has a promising aspect. But all my hopes vanish •when I come to explain the principles that...thought or consciousness. I cannot discover any theory that gives me satisfaction on this head. Indeed, there are two principles which I cannot render consistent,...

...his confession concerning his own theory of cognition that it was " but a rope of sand," and that " there are two principles which I cannot render consistent, nor is it in my power to renounce either." In brief the idealistic hypothesis is an illusion — is not a real idea but only a pseud-idea. There...

...objection to this theory is given by Hume himself in an appendix to his Treatise. "But all my hopes vanish, when I come to explain the principles that...theory, which gives me satisfaction on this head." Successive perceptions, no matter how rapidly they succeed each other, would still be successive and...

...reflected thought or perception. The present philosophy therefore has a promising aspect. But all my hopes vanish when I come to explain the principles that unite our successive perceptions in our thought to consciousness. I cannot discover any theory which gives me satisfaction on this head. . . . " In...

...his confession concerning his own theory of cognition that it was " but a rope of sand," and that " there are two principles which I cannot render consistent, nor is it in 7ny power to renounce either." In brief the idealistic hypothesis is an illusion — is not a real...